November 14, 2019 Grow Your Own Wellness Garden, Collecting Seeds, Preserving the Torreya, Henri Dutrochet, Robert Buist, Claude Monet, Thomas Mawson, HB Prince Charles, Robert Frost, Monet’s Passion by Elizabeth Murray, Seedheads, and International Tempranillo Day
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How to grow your own wellness garden | @HomesProperty
@ChelsPhysicGdn's head of plant collections, Nell Jones, shares her tips for the best “wellbeing” plants to grow at home: Peppermint, Rosemary, Turmeric, Aloe Vera, and Chamomile. All are fantastic options for houseplants with health benefits.
How to collect and sow astrantia seeds | Gardener's World | @gwmag
Here's an A+ video from @gwmag featuring Carol Klein - who couldn't look sharper with her Suit & Scarf - showing us How to Collect and Sow Astrantia, Hesperis, & Hardy Annuals. She's the Real Deal - right down to the dirt under her fingernails!
This IDOP podcast is a good one! Ep. 237: The Torreya taxifolia Asa Gray recalled when Hardy Bryan Croom discovered it along with a little plant that grows beneath it: the Croomia pauciflora. So, in botany, as in life, Croom grew happily in the shadow of Torrey.
Botanical History On This Day
1776 Henri Dutrochet, the French physiologist and botanist who discovered and named osmosis and clarified the role of green pigment in plant respiration, was born.
1805 Robert Buist, the Scottish-born Philadelphia nurseryman, seedsman, and author who helped popularize the poinsettia and ran the historic Bernard M’Mahon nursery, was born.
1840 Claude Monet, the Impressionist painter whose beloved garden at Giverny and its water lilies became his most beautiful masterpiece, was born.
1933 Thomas Hayton Mawson, the prolific Edwardian landscape architect and town planner, author of The Art and Craft of Garden Making and designer of Lever’s estates and the Peace Palace gardens, died.
1948 Prince Charles, the future king, organic gardening pioneer, and creator of the visionary gardens at Highgrove, was born.
Unearthed Words
Robert Frost’s “Reluctance” — a wintry meditation on dead leaves, withering flowers, and the heart’s unwillingness to accept the end of a love or a season.
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Today's Botanic Spark
2019 International Tempranillo Day — celebrating Spain’s early-ripening black grape, its spicy, full-bodied wines, and the surprising rise of Tempranillo as Texas’s signature red.
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